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Hypocrisy?
Topic Started: Mar 21 2008, 04:56 PM (178 Views)
Soulless
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I saw an answer on Y!A that I found rather hypocritical.

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"My dislike of obama is due to any ties with Islam. Yes they attacked us, like it or not, their religion preaches hate of our nation, our way of life, our God. Heck if you don't believe exactly the same as they do, even if you are a Muslim they blow you to bits, 99.9% of all the deaths in Iraq have been muslims killing muslims. As for the peaceful ones? why stay quite? if you see an evil and do nothing to stop it, then you are just as guility as the one doing it."


There is much I disagree with in that answer but what I want to ask about are the last two sentences. The writer claims if you see evil and do nothing about it you are as guilty as the person doing the evil. Obviously he's referring to Muslims. What about the person who answered? He has seen an evil but is doing nothing about it. Does that make him not only a hypocrite but also guilty? I'm making an assumption that he isn't in the military, but I'm sure there are many that think as he does and aren't doing anything except hate all Muslims.

What do you think?
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Rhonda
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I do hold to the belief that if you see an evil and do not say anything, that you are just as responsible as the ones doing it. I think that if all he's doing is harboring hate then he indeed is just as guilty.

I grew up in the southern US. Of course, there is still so much racism on both sides of the fence. I'm a white female. My family's views stretched from tolerance on a social level to abject hatred of anyone not white. I never had these views. In my mind, we're all people. That's been pushed even deeper as I've grown in my relationship with God. My dad is extremely racist. I'll never forget the time he got so mad at me that he actually threw a lamp and hit the wall beside my head! My dad had never done anything of the sort before, and it scared the living daylights out of me. I was 10 years old at the time, and all I wanted was to invite my best friend to my slumber party. She was black.

When I was 18, I was hanging out with some friends. We saw a truck coming with a bunch of guys in the back, yelling at something behind the truck. It was a black teenage boy they'd tied to the truck and were dragging him behind. I was horrified! I carried a pocket knife with me at the time. (I'm a huge tomboy...lol) I walked into the street where they'd have to either stop or hit me. They stopped and started telling us how they'd caught this guy talking to a white girl. I very calmly walked behind the truck and cut him loose. They started cursing at me and calling me a "nigger-loving whore," among other things. One of them jumped out and came toward me. I told him that if he came any closer I'd turn his balls into a necklace...*snort* I took that poor guy to the hospital a block away and stayed until they got him sorted out.

The point of telling this is that it's not always easy to stand up for what is right. Quite often it's downright dangerous. I've been discriminated against because I'm female, white, or a Christian. I don't care. It used to make me mad, but anymore I just smile and bless them. It's when I see it happening to others that gets me fired up. I've come to the defense of people that had, in the past, been total jerks to me. One of the things I'm most passionate about is abortion. Many spew hate to the doctors who do this, but I don't. I pray for them. I pray that they'll have a change of heart. I can't change men's hearts, but God can. So I do what I can to be proactive, but I leave the rest up to Him by lifting them up in prayer. I pray for women that have had abortions, not berate and demonize them. I pray for people who think that violence and hate are ways to get their points across. It's just abject stupidity to think that aggression does anything but convince people that THEY'RE right.
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I just can't get my head around that sort of hatred for someone based on the colour of their skin. I'm not saying it doesn't happen here but I can honestly say I've never seen it nor met anyone who thought like that. I've had friends from all over the world, Vietnamese, Chinese, Fijian, Dutch, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Greek. I guess being a fairly young country we didn't have slavery and it's legacy to contend with, but still, I just can't even imagine how someone could think so little of another life that they could do that.

The more I hear about you the more impressed I am. I'm sure many people would have simply walked away rather than get involved. I'm glad you did but I'm also glad you didn't get hurt yourself.

I seem to have made a lot of assumptions about the rest of the world. I thought the rest of the Western world was fairly similar to Australia, but from your description I have to think that maybe we are a little better at accepting people than I thought. Discriminating against someone because they are female? I honestly have never even considered it. I guess in upper management jobs it happens but in my everyday life I don't think I've seen it. Then again, women here are fairly outspoken. ^_^ And I've only ever once been asked my religion since I left school. No-one cares what religion you are here.
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